Climate Commitment

Campus Commitments

In 2010, then-President Rebecca Chopp signed the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment, joining the leaders of institutions of higher education across the country in accelerating educational and operational efforts to address climate change. To date, Swarthmore College has taken the following actions to fulfill its commitment:

Topics

Listen: The Anthropology of Climate Change

Christiana Figueres '79, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, recently spoke on campus as part of the Department of Biology's fall lecture series, "The Challenges of Climate Change."

Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the U.S. and India

In this lecture Michael Greenstone '91 provides estimates on the impact of climate change on mortality in the U.S. and India. He also presents estimates of the costs of the adaptations that people will undertake to protect themselves against the health risks posed by climate change and finally, he analyzes the implications for climate policy.